dimanche 16 mars 2014

Elif Ebru Sakar - Bagatelle


Biography



Elif Ebru Sakar



1994 Mersin-born Turkish composer. Started composing little piano pieces during her early-age piano education, experienced her first orchestral scores at the age of 16. While she was 18, she was commissioned by Meininger Trio for her mixed chamber piece “Wind Touch” which was premiered and will be published on cd in Germany, honored as “Youngest Turkish composer commissioned from Europe”. Sakar was also participated to BeethovenFest Bonn as an “Invited Composer” in 2012, the year she was accepted to Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory Composition Department.
Sakar was commissioned by soloists and ensembles from Germany, Switzerland and United States. Her latest piece “Sketches” for clarinet duo was premiered by Selin Gürol and Martina Morello in Lausanne, Switzerland; in Fabruary 2014. She’s been still studying composition with composer Sıdıka Özdil Gardner, in Hacettepe University Ankara State Conservatory. Her upcoming projects are going to be with Richard Whynn McGuire (percussionist) in United States and with Nicolas Horvath (pianist) during his Japan-Ukraine-Iran-Russia tour in 2014.




Bagatelle

(by the composer herself)


“Bagatelle” was composed on a commission by Nicolas Horvath for “Glass Worlds-Hommages to Philip Glass” concert series with a concept of minimalism. With the composers standpoint of minimalism in a more traditional way, Sakar’s mono-tematic attitude for minimalism has shaped with “Bagatelle” which forms around one characteristic and simple theme variating and cycling around the piece with a traditional use of piano. Composer had aimed listeners, not to be able to follow or anticipate the course, 
but to have just fun in a trice.

Paulo Cesar Maia de Aguiar - In the light of paradise musicianship master of Glass

Biography


Paulo Cesar Maia de Aguiar
Paulo Cesar Maia de Aguiar was born in November 10, 1970 n, in Rio de Janeiro province of Rio de Janeiro
Studied piano at Rio De Janeiro Brazilian Conservatory between 1985 and 1993 belatedly, there was interest on the part of him give towards the career of composer and pianist . Had as master Benito Taranto (Conservatório Brasileiro-BR) 1991, and Katia Demarco 1985 -1990(CBM-BR) . In 1994 he joined composition Course At UERJ (RJ), but does not complete it. Follow then the task of teaching piano lessons. In the year 1997 to 2010 was allowed to work as a choir, and thus developed a didactic work and composition to the genre, and still 140 pieces for this choir and Made 10 appearances on local Tv. As Arranger Works dede 2007 until this year, at Christmas cantatas for a charitable purpose. As a pianist has acted in Chambre music since 1989, accompanied by singers, and instrumentalists.
Paulo Cesar Maia de Aguiar has a diverse style, late romantic, Impressionist, modern, depending on the occasion and comprehensive context.So start your career in a professional manner to 38 years, after this date 2009, that solved, exposing the work for publication and approval of the public. He believes that merges between musical styles are also a way to innovate without crashing, musica is for overall assessment.







 In the light of paradise musicianship master of Glass
(by the composer himself)

 The Agógica (time shift that occurs in the musical work full time) in this piece of music is not free to interpret tending accuracy. And getting ahead on Harmony and Agógica aspects of the musical work (MW) would be a copy of nuances as much as hamonicas as much as rhythmic, an etheric-volatile effect to the listener to piece. It's free bordering or going to "rubalto" I took myself as an example: ["The Hours"] that made MR Glass Soundtrack masterfully. And the criterion of relevance is to give each harmonic and rhythmic nuance that has Mr. in your soul that is free. 
 Then, rhythmic figures (eighth) of the voice and voice 2 3 relate to describe this time, and all ranging Harmonia time between stress and support motion and no motion, tension and peace. Since the film hours aprensenta ourselves and life also shows us: impermanence, despite the accurately measured over time (hours), the important thing would be how we spend the time, depending on our emotions and state of mind and I believe that the Lord touching understand. 
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Mehmet Erhan Tanman - Glass Waves

Biography




Mehmet Erhan Tanman



Tanman was born in Istanbul, 29 March 1980. He began his musical training with piano lessons which he studied with his father and as a chorist in TRT Child Chorus. Then he completed his part-time education on piano at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory, while he was at primary school. In later years, he studied composition and orchestration with Prof. Dr. Hasan Uçarsu, Prof. Dr. Özkan Manav and Doç. Mehmet Nemutlu, harmony and fugue with Volkan Barut, counterpoint with Babür Tongur and piano with Prof. Selen Bucak at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory, where he has received his bachelors degrees both in composition and piano. His works have been performed in United States, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Turkey.
'Tanman had his first orchestral concert experience as a composer in 2005 when he was only 16, with his work Symphonic Arrangements on R. Schumann's Album for the Young performed by MSFAU Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erdem Çöloğlu. Incoming years his works and projects were commissioned and sponsored by Bludenz Kultur (Austria, 2008), Triage Modern Music Ensemble (Germany, 2010), La Mer String Quartet (Switzerland, 2011), Presidential Symphony Orchestra (Turkey, 2011), German broadcaster Deutsche Welle (Germany, 2012).[1] and MeiningerMusik (Germany, 2013). Tanman's work for large orchestra The Traffic which was commissioned by Deutsche Welle, premiered by Turkish National Youth Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Cem Mansur, in Radio Berlin Brandenburg (Berlin), Beethovenhalle (Bonn) ve Palais de Beaux Arts (Brussels), as a part of Beethovenfest Bonn 2012.
Tanman has been studying Master of Music degree with Prof. Dr. Hasan Uçarsu at MSFUA State Conservatory and with September 2014 he's going to begin his Master of Music degree studies with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rihm at Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe

His works was honored with awards such as Donizetti Classical Music Awards "Young Musician of The Year" (2013), Deutsche Welle Composition Prize (2012), Mersin International Music Festival Composition Competition – Third prize (2010). Beside these awards, a cd production of his work for large orchestra The Traffic which was premiered as a part of BeethovenFest Bonn 2012, was released by Deutsche Welle in 2013.
Beside these, Tanman has been a writer-member of Turkish classical music magazine, Andante and he has been lecturer of composition in Kocaeli University State Conservatory composition department. Tanman's projects between 2013–2015 are going to be with German ensemble Meininger Trio, two new cd projects, a new opera project with Zurich Opera and conductor Sibylle Wagner, a new Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra with percussionist Emil Kuyumcuyan and Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra with clarinetist Selin Gürol under the baton of conductor Orhun Orhon. Nowadays, Tanman has been working on his new solo piano work Transcriptions 2, which he has been composing for pianist Fazıl Say.





Glass Waves


Aleksandar Perunović - Metaglasswork

Biography



Aleksandar Perunović


Montenegrin composer Aleksandar Perunović (1978) was graduated and postgraduated from Music Academy in Cetinje (Montenegro), Department of Composition, under prof. Žarko Mirković. He also attended several domestic and inernational music seminars: Internationale Sommerakademie in Austria (with Kurt Schwertsik [2003] and Detlev Müller-Siemens [2005]), Winter school Contemporary music in Dubrovnik (Croatia, 2006), and master-classes/workshops in Novi Pazar (Serbia, 2001) and Belgrade (with Reinhard Febel [2006] and Nebojša Jovan Živković [2008]). His compositions have been performed in Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Germany and Netherlands by domestic, regional and international performers: Leopolis Strings (Ukraine), ensemble on_line (Vienna), Sonemus (Sarajevo), female academy choir Collegium musicum (Belgrade) etc. In addition to composing, he is also engaged in music theory and analysis, and the works in this field was presented at the Seminar of Chamber Music in Podgorica (Montenegro, 2008) and the 9th international conference Music Theory and Analysis in Belgrade (2011). Since 2003 he teaches several music subjects at the Music Academy in Cetinje (mainly Musical Forms and Aranging), and also is a member of Montenegrin Association of Composers, Department of Music Art in Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Montenegrin Organization for Collective Management of Music Authors’ Rights. Currently, he attends doctoral studies of composition at the Faculty of Music Arts in Belgrade, under prof. Srđan Hofman.



Metaglasswork

(by the composer himself)


Composition metaglasswork is some kind of a radical de(con)structive „variation“ on the Philip Glass’ theme Music Box from the movie Candyman. It consists of three sections: slow (Larghetto), fast (Presto ed inquieto), and slow (Andantino). The first section is based on tonic c-minor triad from the accompaniment of the theme. The appearances of this triad are blurred and intersected by sounding of „silence“ (harmonics), as well as harsh quasi-cluster chords. From this part of the piece gradually emerges middle section which, among others, brings motion that is distinctive for Glass’ music in general: continuous repetition of broken minor third. However, this repeatead interval sounds – quite contrary to Glass – somewhat disturbingly, and soon turns  in almost agressive , threatening sound. Last section of the piece is some kind of an epilogue. Initial fragments of main melody of mentioned Glass’ piece – foreshadowed at one point of middle section – now appears, but in a quite unexpositional way: they „float“ and fade away on an „inappropriate“ harmony. And finally, at the very end of the piece, one can hear „distant“ (pizzicato) broken c-minor triad…

Mohammed Uthman Sidiq (tba)


Biography




Mohammed Uthman Sidiq


Iraqi pianist, conductor and composer of orchestral and chamber works performed in Europe, the Middle East and North America. Self taught as composer Mohammad studied piano at the Music and Ballet School in Baghdad 1968-1980 and later on piano with Vera Barisivna at the Russian Academy of Music in Moscow where he obtained his MMus in 1997.Among his several Honors and prizes are First prize in the Arab Song Competition in Cairo in 2000.He is currently conductor of the Amman Philharmonic Orchestra , head of the Keyboard Department and assistant director of academic affairs at the National Music Conservatory in Amman.

Ramz Sabry Samy - Between Lines

Biography





Born in 1973 in Cairo, Egypt, Ramz is the grandson of the pioneering Egyptian artist and painter Labib Ayoub (1905-1975). Ramz was initially drawn to painting in his childhood, but as a teenager, he abandoned painting in search for his real talent in another form of art: music. He started to play the Violin at the age of sixteen, and then he immediately attempted his first sketches of musical composition.
In 1991 he studied music theory and harmony with Aziz el Shawan (1916-1993). Later, he continued his studies with Kamel el Remali (1922-). In 2000 he was granted a fellowship from the Fulbright Foundation to study in the USA at the Manhattan School of Music with several renowned professors such as David Noon (1946- ), Nils Vigeland (1950- ) and Reiko Fueting.
In 2002 he received the Egyptian State Prize for Creativity and traveled to Italy. Residing in Rome at the Egyptian Academy, Ramz studied with Mauro Bortolotti (1926-2007) and Azio Corghi (1937- ). He was awarded the First Prize for Composition from the Supreme Council of Culture in Egypt in 2005, and the State Encouragement Prize in 2006. Between 2007 and 2010, he was a four-time recipient of the Award for Artistic Production from the Egyptian Ministry of Culture.
Ramz composed music in numerous types and genres but his real passion remains for symphonic music.Many of his works were performed in Egypt, USA, Italy, Sweden, England, Switzerland, Russia and elsewhere. Ramz also taught Composition, Harmony and History at the Alexandria Conservatoire (2006-2008).






Between Lines 


Sophia Serghi - Allure

Biography



Sophia Serghi


Serghi, Sophia (b. 1972, Nicosia,). Cypriot composer, now resident in the USA, of stage, orchestral, chamber, vocal and multi-media works that have been performed in Europe and the USA.  Many ensembles and orchestras have performed her music, including the American Composers Orchestra, the Aurelia Saxophone Quartet, the Chilingirian String Quartet, the Cyprus State Orchestra, Duo Palmos, Ensemble Sizzle, and the Greek Contemporary Music Ensemble. The Haifa Symphony Orchestra, The Nash Ensemble, the Orchestra of Colors, Speculum Musicae, and Trio Athene have also performed her works. Ms Serghi has written music for multi-media productions including an Opera “The Noah’s – a climatic Tale” at Theatre Pompoen in Amsterdam, several theatre productions with the Cyprus National Theatre Company, feature films and documentaries.
Ms. Serghi studied with Vincent McDermott at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon from 1990-94, where she earned her BA cum laude, and then with George Edwards, Jonathan D. Kramer and Fred Lerdahl at Columbia University from 1994-98, where she earned her MA and DMA.    
She also attended the Aspen Music Festival in 1992-93, where she studied with George Tsontakis, and the Oregon Bach Festival in 1995-96, where she studied with John Harbison, Robert Kyr and Judith Weir. In addition, she studied with Betsy Jolas at the École des Arts Américaines in Fontainebleau in 1997 and has attended masterclasses with William Albright, Louis Andriessen, Theodore Antoniou, Jacob Druckman, Lou Harrison, Frederic Rzewski, and Joan Tower.
From 1996-98, she served as the pianist of the multimedia ensemble Ultra-Violet in New York City and from 1998-present served as director of the HY-PER Art Ensemble at the College of William and Mary. Since 2000, she has been the artistic director and pianist of the SCHIZO5 Ensemble in Cyprus.
Sophia Serghi is the Robert F and Sarah M Boyd Distinguished Associate Professor of Music at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, USA.
Most recently, she has received a commission and international broadcast from the European Union for the work Palingenesis, for orchestra, to celebrate the entrance of Cyprus in the European Union. Other recent commissions include the Nash Ensemble, Relache, the Cyprus National Theatre, the Athens Concert Hall and Helikon Saxophone Quartet. She served as artist-in-residence at the Cité International des Arts in Paris (2000, on a Virginia Atelier Award), the Banff Centre for the Arts (1998) and received the Salvatore Martirano Composition Award from the University of Illinois (2000, for Sizzle) and Third Prize in the Center for Mediterranean Music Composition Award (2002, for Flying Flowers).
In October, 2009, Sophia Serghi (on piano), along with the Flux String Quartet, soprano Michelle Trovato, violinist Susan Via, and double bassist Dan Via, performed some of her original chamber works in a show entitled From Byzantium to Punk Rock at The Kennedy Center. 





Allure 


Marcus Fjellström - Metric

Biography







Born in Sweden in 1979, Marcus Fjellström is a composer and multimedia artist. His work ranges from the purely orchestral through electronic music and audiovisual work. He has worked with the Swedish Royal Ballet, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Sinfonietta Cracovia, as well as numerous other orchestras, ensembles and soloists, independent record labels, artists and filmmakers.
Fjellström studied composition and orchestration at the School of Music in Piteå, Sweden, graduating with honors in 2005. One month after graduation his debut full-length album "Exercises in Estrangement" was released by Lampse Audiovisual Recordings to enthusiastic reviews. The following year his second album "Gebrauchsmusik" was released by the same label, and in 2010 the album "Schattenspieler" was released by Miasmah Recordings.
In 2008 he completed his first major audiovisual work, the experimental cartoon / electronic music piece "Odboy & Erordog, episode 1". Since then he has written several audiovisual works involving classical instrumentation, including "Lichtspiel Mutation 1" for Sinfonietta Cracovia and the "Odboy & Erordog Suite" for The Peärls Before Swïne Exerience.
In his works, Fjellström often aims to combine opposites so that they don't contradict each other, but rather fuse into a natural, third element. There is often a challenging of the gap between "high" and "low" culture, of the naïve and the sophisticated, of good and bad taste. Musical influences range from electronica such as Aphex Twin and Autechre, to 20th century composers such as György Ligeti and John Cage. Further influences include impressionist composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, and film music composers Bernard Herrmann, Angelo Badalamenti and Zdeněk Liška.
Recent projects include the symphonic dance piece "AGAIN" in collaboration with choreographer Ina Christel Johannessen and NorrlandsOperan, "Alchemist Dances", a new piece for solo percussion, electronic music and video for percussionist Daniel Saur, and "Epilogue -M-", a new EP release including visual art by artist/designer Bas Mantel.





Metric

(by the composer himself)


Piano composition in the style of Philip Glass

Nilo Belarmino Alcala - Glass Petals

Biography


Nilo Alcala
Nilo Alcala completed his Masters in Music Composition (2009) at Syracuse University Setnor School of Music (New York State) where he was awarded the Irene L. Crooker Music Award.  A recipient of a Billy Joel Fellowship, Alcala also received grants from the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) of the Philippines.  He was a BS Development Communication graduate from the University of the Philippines Los Banos (1999) prior to his admission to the BM Composition program of the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Music. He graduated Magna cum laude (2007) and received the Gawad Tsanselor Natatanging Mag-aaral Award (Chancellor's Outstanding Student Award).
 Alcala’s awards also include the 2004 Asian Composer’s League (ACL) Young Composer Award (2nd Prize) in a competition of chamber music compositions held in Jerusalem, Israel, as well as the 2008-2008 POLYPHONOS Young Composer Award given by The Esoterics, a vocal-ensemble based in Seattle, USA. Alcala’s portfolio for Polyphonos was chosen from among 128 entries from different countries.  In February 2009, Alcala received an Ani ng Dangal Award from the NCCA in recognition of his victories in international competitions.
 The Metro Manila Community Orchestra has premiered Alcala’s works entitled “Diary of a Synaesthete” (orchestra) and "Speak to me my love/You are the evening cloud" (orchestra and voice) on February of 2006 and 2007, respectively, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP). He was also the Philippine delegate to and featured composer in the 1st I'mPULSE International Music Camp organized by the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF) in February 2005. His works also received readings from acclaimed international chamber groups as the Cassatt String Quartet and the Da Capo Chamber Players.
 Alcala’s commissions include the official contest pieces for the Youth Choir Category of the 2005 National Music Competitions for Young Artists or NAMCYA, the 2008 Voices in Harmony choral competition organized by the Children’s Museum and Library, Inc. as well as the 2013 Andrea O. Veneracion International Choral Festival contest piece for the Chamber Choir Category.
 An active chorister, he was member and composer-in-residence (2004-2007) of the Philippine Madrigal Singers, Asia’s most awarded and most traveled choir.  The group premiered his works in concert tours in the United States, and several countries in Asia and Europe, including the following prestigious international competitions:  35th Florilege Vocal de Tours (Tours, France) and the 2007 European Grand Prix for Choral Singing (Arezzo, Italy). Other notable ensembles have performed his works in the following festivals:
-   Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod
     (Choir of the World), Wales, United   Kingdom
-   World Choir Games/Choir Olympics
     (various countries, including China, and the USA)
-   Vietnam International Choral Competition
-   International Choir Festival of Sacred,
     Advent and Christmas Music, Kaunas, Lithuania
-   Singapore Youth Festival
-   Asian Composers League/Israel Composers League,  
     Tel aviv and Jerusalem,
-   Internationaler Kammerchor Wettbewerb Marktoberdorf
-    Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival

 Other accomplishments under his name include nominations for Best Music Score at the 2003 Star Awards for Movies, Golden Screen Awards, and the 24th Metro Manila Film Festival for the movie "Homecoming" by acclaimed Filipino director Gil Portes. He also won Best Sound Design/Musical Score for the short animated film "Flowertrail" at the 2004 INDEO Film Festival held at the UP Film Center.
 Alcala’s composition teachers include Nicholas Scherzinger, Gregory Mertl, Daniel Godfrey, Jonas Baes, Christine Muyco, Josefino Chino Toledo, and Ramon Pagayon Santos.
As a singer-songwriter, Alcala has released an inspirational CD album in Los Angeles entitled "Dare to Dream", launched at a very successful concert at the Envision Center in July of 2012.





Glass Petals
(by the composer himself)


Ornate floral glass sculptures give inspiration to this homage.  
They are visually stunning, colorful, seemingly delicate, yet cold and sharp. 
 “Glass Petals” is a musical oxymoron of delicate sharpness, fiery coldness, and jagged melodic contours.


Hsiao-Lan Wang 王曉嵐 - Crystalline

Biography


Hsiao-Lan Wang
Hsiao-Lan Wang composes extensively for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and electronic media. Her music investigates the fundamental elements of musical communication through new timbral, formal, and technological relationships. Her music has been played by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, among others. Notable recognition from various national and international awards includes Pauline Oliveros Prize and Libby Larsen Prize from International Alliance for Women in Music, Athena Festival Chamber Music Composition Competition, American Composers Forum, Pierre Schaeffer Computer Music Competition (Italy), Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize for Orchestra, Composers Competition by Chamber Orchestra of Denton, Awards from ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers), Logos Foundation (Belgium), Bourges Electro Acoustic Music Festival (France), and Dutch National Radio. She is also a frequent participant at music festivals throughout North America.
In addition to her career as a composer, Dr. Wang extends her musical platform to conducting of orchestral, choral, and contemporary chamber music. Given her special interest in contemporary music, she has continuously conducted works by both developing and established composers of our time, including numerous world premieres. In a performance of her own composition, she conducted the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra as her conducting debut. She has served as the associate conductor of Musica Nova new music ensemble at University of Missouri-Kansas City, the Nova Ensemble at University of North Texas, and the Flower Mound Community Orchestras. She was the founding director of the Electric Monster Laptop Ensemble.
Dr. Wang received her BA in Music Composition and Theory from the Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan) in 1999, MM in composition from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2002, and DMA in composition from the University of North Texas in 2010. She taught composition and music technology at University of North Texas and Montana State University. Advocacy for women’s music has been an area where she devotes much of her energy in recent years. She served between 2008 and 2012 as the president of the International Alliance for Women in Music.






Crystalline


Mihkel Kerem - Broken Glass

Biography


Mihkel Kerem

Since his early teens Mihkel Kerem has been a prolific composer. His work has a wide range of influence, from Shostakovitch to Schoenberg.
Compositions to date include 3 Symphonies, 3 Concertos (violin, viola and two cellos), and 10 other works for orchestra. Chamber compositions include 9 String Quartets, a String Sextet, a String Octet, 3 Sonatas for Violin and Piano, 2 Wind Quintets and several pieces for piano.
Mihkel’s works have been performed in the USA, Russia, UK, Germany, Holland, and many other European countries. He has been composer in residence at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival in Germany and the Aurora Chamber Music Festival in Sweden. Performers have included the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra with Neeme Järvi, the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Oulu Sinfonia, Joensuu City Orchestra, Camerata Nordica and the Chilingirian String Quartet: several concerts have been dedicated solely to his music.
In 2012, Toccata Classics released a CD of his 4 Violin Sonatas. A second CD of Symphony No. 3, Lamento for Viola and Strings and the String Sextet was issued in 2013.
Mihkel is published by Fennica Gehrman publishing house.
As a solo violinist, Mihkel has played with many orchestras including the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Estonian Opera Orchestra, Brandenburg Sinfonia, Southbank Sinfonia. He has performed all the major concertos, as well as some lesser known works, such as Trandafilovski’s violin concerto (of which he gave the London premiere in 2004).
He has frequently lead and directed tours with Camerata Nordica and been the leader of Southbank Sinfonia and Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. As a guest, he performs with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Chamber Orchestra.
Mihkel is the leader of Brandenburg Sinfonia and section principal in Camerata Nordica.



Broken Glass 

(by the composer himself)

Broken Glass as the title suggest, is my attempt in minimalism. The idea that music that we hear does not start and finish, but is just a cutout of music that has always been and always will be, is constructed on minimal changes in rhythmical texture with harmonic development coming from mathematical overlaps. The piece is describing falling glass particles in an academic way and sounds like a very broken piece of music by Glass.





Peter Hannan (tba)


Biography


Peter Hannan
Peter Hannan has composed numerous works in both acoustic and electronic media. He has written more than 50 commissions over the past 20 years , including large scale works for the Vancouver Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, the CBC Orchestra and the Pacific Baroque Orchestra;  works for the experimental large ensembles Icebreaker (London) , the Hardrubber Orchestra, and Toronto based Hemispheres. His recent piece for the Vancouver Symphony, side with entropy received a raucus reception at its premiere in March 2005.His most recent work, written for the Vancouver Cantata Singers is called Happiness Index and explores the need that drives people  to understand and find happiness.
A very fruitful and inspiring collaboration of recent years has been with the director and playwright Peter Hinton. In recent years, Hannan and Hinton have created  two new operas together . 120 Songs for the Marquis de Sade  opened in Vancouver in March 2002, and The Diana Cantata appeared in February 2003, both works produced by Modern Baroque Opera . Hannan also wrote the music for Peter Hinton’s 2006 production of The Duchess of Malfi at the Stratford Festival of Canada. Hannan and Hinton are currently collaborating on a new music theatre work for the National Arts Centre.
As a performer, Hannan is well known for his work as an electronic instrumentalist and recorder soloist .  He has performed as a soloist on many major new music events and series including :  Ijsbreker Amsterdam,  the Holland Festival,  Almeida Festival, Freunde Guter Musik Berlin, the Bourges Electronic Music Festival, New Music America, New Music Concerts and Arraymusic.
In the 1980’s and 90’s he toured and recorded throughout North America and Europe with Suzie Leblanc and New World Consort . His recording Baroque Sonatas and Canzonas with harpsichordist Colin Tilney from 1985 is still played regularly on BBC Radio.
He is currently active as a performer of live electronic music, particularly in his work with Toronto composer Henry Kucharzyk in the duo PHH!K. His recordings include PHH!K Songs  with Henry Kucharzyk and Christine Duncan,  Breakdown, his solo CD of new recorder music, and numerous Canadian and international radio recordings, including CBC Radio, BBC Radio, WDR Koln, Radio Bremen, Radio France, and NOS Radio, Holland.
 His latest recording Rethink Forever won "Best Classical Recording" at the 2011 Western Canada Music Awards.

Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis - Tálâ


Biography


Feliz Anne Reyes Macahis
Feliz Anne R. Macahis (b. 1987) is a Philippine-born composer whose works have been performed in the U.S.A., Canada, Argentina, France, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Music, magna cum laude, in composition from the University of the Philippines in 2009, and recently graduated with a Master of Music from the University of Memphis. Her primary teachers were Kamran Ince, Jonas Baes, and Josefino Toledo.

Her music has been performed by the Philippine Vocal Ensemble, Chambre d'écoute, East Coast Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Selisih, Luna Nova, TICF Trio, Metro Manila Community Orchestra, Auit Vocal Chamber Ensemble, Manila Chamber Singers, and the University of Memphis Contemporary Chamber Players.

Ms. Macahis's works have been featured in the ACL-Philippines' 1st Contemporary Choral Festival, IKOTOKI PARA Sound Exhibit, Ars Nova Choele Choel 2013, Tempus Fugit 2013, Experimental Thai Music and Dance Concert, 20/20 Foresight, Double Vision, International Choral Kathaumixw, Manila Composers Lab, Etchings Festival, Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival, Duong Dai Festival, MMCO: Music Underkonstruction, Thailand International Composition Festival Competition, Koro Filipino Launching Series, and the Asian Composers League Contemporary Music Festival.

Ms. Macahis is the Executive Director of the Manila Composers Lab 2013/14. She is a senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Music.





Tálâ
(by the composer herself)


Tálâ for solo piano attempts to appropriate the repetitive structure  in Philip Glass' music while also taking into consideration the sounscape of the composer's cultural heritage. It's very interesting how the word Tálâ means in different culture- It could represent a traditional rhythmic pattern; it could refer to 'gold,' and thus manifests shimmer and brilliance; it's a poetic Filipino word for Bright star; and it also represents the goddess of the morning star.

Michael Vincent Waller - Pasticcio per meno è più


Biography


Michael Vincent Waller



Michael Vincent Waller is an Italian-American composer of contemporary classical music, living and working in NYC. Waller's work is expansive in its incorporation of avant-garde sound worlds and connecting them back to a more traditional, classical beauty - hailed by the New York Times as "sweetly lyrical" and "pensive". He also has studied world music, specifically raga, and focused on modal analysis. Waller's chamber works have been commissioned and performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble, FLUX Quartet, Ensemble Epomeo, Ensemble Dedalus, Eric Huebner, Jenny Q. Chai, String Noise (Conrad Harris & Pauline Kim Harris), Hilo String Duo (Caroline Chin & Brian Snow), Zentripedal Duo, Project SiS (Christine Kim), Cadillac Moon Ensemble, and many more, at venues such as ISSUE Project Room, Roulette, and Spectrum. He has studied with La Monte Young, Bunita Marcus, Petr Kotik, and Elizabeth Hoffman as a graduate of New York University.

Pasticcio per meno è più

(by the composer himself)



Pasticcio per meno è più (2014) is written and dedicated to Nicolas Horvath. This work was written to be premiered on a full program of Philip Glass's music - and it reflects on the core minimalist idea "less is more". There are pastiche-like elements that are very simple and repetitive - expanding into always changing, subtle and complex variations. The melody imbues a sense of sauntering beauty, while the piece taunts you (and him).

Jerry Hui - The Meditation of Siddhartha


Biography


Jerry Hui
Jerry (Chiwei) Hui has written a wide variety of music that ranges from large-scale orchestral music to light-hearted choral text settings. His music has been performed in festivals such as the Music Today Festival in Eugene, Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, Society of Composers conferences (regional and national), and the World Saxophone Congress. His choral piece Of Water & Love was awarded the 2008 Robert Helps Prize. The live premiere of his first comic chamber opera, Wired For Love, was well received by critics, who described the music as “seriously fun”, and with “accomplished contrapuntal texture.”
As a conductor, Dr. Hui has founded and directed various community choirs, church choirs, and orchestras. He was the founder, director and conductor of Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble in Eugene, Oregon, focusing on contemporary music, with a repertoire that included works by Schoenberg, Webern, Adams, Stravinsky, as well as student composers. He had also conducted the Eugene Symphony Chorus and Madison Early Music Festival. In 2010, Mr. Hui founded and co-directs the ensemble New Music Everywhere, presenting contemporary music in venue-specific programs, funded by the Yamaha In-Residence Fellowship and the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission of Wisconsin. He is now the director of choral activities at University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Jerry Hui is active as a performer, primarily singing in small vocal ensembles and choruses, and has often appeared as a vocal soloist. Mr. Hui has sung Renaissance and contemporary music as a bass, tenor and countertenor, and is also interested in Renaissance dances and gestures. Past performances include Handel’s Clori, Tirsi e Fileno (Fileno) in the Bay Area, and Peter Maxwell Davies’ Eight Songs for a Mad King in Madison, Wisconsin. He is currently directing and performing with Eliza’s Toyes, a chamber ensemble in Madison specialized in creative and interdisciplinary performances of early music.
A native of Hong Kong, Jerry Hui received his DMA degree in music composition/choral conducting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Bachelor’s degree in music composition and computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Masters degrees in music composition and choral conducting from the University of Oregon. Mr. Hui’s principal composition teachers include David Crumb, Stephen Dembski, Robert Kyr, Joel Naumann and Laura Schwendinger. His conducting teachers are Beverly Taylor, Sharon Paul, Bruce Gladstone, Hirvo Surva, and Paul Flight.





The Meditation of Siddhartha

(by the composer himself)

Siddhartha the young prince set out on a journey to knowing the world, and encountered the inevitable stages of life, all of which hidden from him since his birth: aging, sickness, and death. It was this encounter that set the prince onto his lifelong quest to the truth of life. In Meditation of Siddhartha, four musical ideas represent each of the steps that form the cycle of life. They intertwine and interact with each other, weaving together a tapestry of ethereal tones.

Kanstantsin Yaskou Кастанцін Яськоў - Moonlight Sonata of Philip Glass

Biography


Kanstantsin Yaskou


Kanstantsin Yaskou (Канстанцін Яськоў (By), Константин Яськов (Rus)), (b. December 29, 1981, Vetka (Gomel region)).
Belarusian composer.
Mr. K.Yaskou studied composition and conducting at the Belarusian State Academy of Music in Minsk. There he received his diploma in 2006 and had post-graduate studies in composition from 2006-2008. In 2008 as a participant of  Gaude Polonia program of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland he had a training in composition at the Academy of Music in Katowice. 
He is a participant and an organizer of many concerts and festivals of contemporary music. 
Since 2007 Konstantin Yaskou is a member of  Belarussian composers union.
He has taught the analysis of music form and the theory of the contemporary harmony at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. He also has taught the notation of the Belarusian folklore’s audio records at the Belarusian State University of Culture and Art in Minsk since 2008.






Moonlight Sonata of Philip Glass
(by the composer himself)



Arpeggio is the most prominent feature of the style Glass' music. In my musical experience arpeggio is associated with the most popular Betthoven 's piece "Moonlight Sonata". But also, I noticed that several harmonic sequences from this Beethoven 's opus are used in compositions of Glass. I decided to play with allusions to the music of these two composers. So I took some harmonic sequences from Beethoven 's "Moonlight Sonata" and arranged in Glass' music style. I imagined the way of composing "Moonlight Sonata" by Philip Glass. 




Hillary Springfield - Atom Unit


Biography

Hillary Springfield
I was born in 1971 in Mönchengladbach and grew up in Niederkrüchten, a small German village on the Dutch border. After working as a care worker in a children's home and a runner at several theatres in Germany and England I studied Applied Theatre Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany and Composition with Patric Standford and Christopher Fox in Huddersfield (BA, MA) and with Vic Hoyland in Birmingham (PhD).
My works have been performed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the ISCM World Music Days in Manchester (with Isobel Bowler), Spitalfields Festival (with Isobel Bowler), the Barbican Centre, Birmingham Symphony Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Tate Liverpool and various other concert halls, festivals, supermarkets, art galleries, shoe shops, theatres, banks, opera houses, in cafes, on beaches, in cinemas, on the radio, on TV; in the UK, Germany, lots of other European places, in Russia, New Zealand, the USA and Canada.

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Cyril Planchon - Stimulus I


Biography


Cyril Planchon

 French , born in 1975 in Angers , Cyril Planchon began piano at the age of 8 .
His passion for the piano quickly leads to the composition.
20 years , Cyril was forced to stop the piano for study computer programmer , which leads him to become engineer in large groups such as Canal +, Technicolor .
Real self , Cyril continues to work his music even creating music 2 shows Anjou.
Despite his work computer programmer, Cyril continues to create unabated chamber music, piano pieces , music playing ...
Driven by a passion for music, Cyril abandoned his profession to become a professional computer programmer composer .
" Leo " Anthony Bessonnier is his first original music , will succeed "First Date ", a short film by Sarah Gurévick then " clock Angels" Arnaud Debuchy , whose soundtrack was recorded by the orchestra Quartet 92 at Studio Plus XXX Paris.
Today Cyril regularly responds to requests for original music .
Cyril , a self-taught composer who , for some time now , the following courses to hone his songwriting style . I stimulus is most likely the result of this work .


Stimulus - I

(by the composer himself)


The stimulus is an event coming musical nature determine a change in the line
page.
The stimulus can be of type:
- Harmonic
- Rhythmic
- directional
- intervallic
Stimulus I:
In this piece, the stimuli used are directional harmonic type and intervallic.